Earlier in June, there was a similar attempt when a single ship, the Madleen, was seized after a brief, well-documented effort to deliver food, medical kits and water equipment.

Millions of people live in great poverty and starvation due to pandemics, wars, and climate disasters. Nonetheless, a tiny number of billionaires who control and manage most TNCs continue to amass unheard-of sums of money.

Calls for independent, transparent investigations into cases of alleged enforced disappearances and ratification of the much-discussed convention on disappearances got louder at this UPR.

Government should promptly start working on UPR recommendations

Several human rights concerns including shrinking space for dissent, extrajudicial killings, and attacks on minority groups have been highlighted.

UN human rights chief's visit to Dhaka revealed contrasting expectations on the part of the government and rights groups.

A large number of representatives from United Nations (UN) Member States congratulate the Bangladesh delegation after its win in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) election with huge votes.

An independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar formed by the UN Human Rights Council outlines in its report four key common characteristics of the operations of the armed forces of Myanmar in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States.

The United States withdraws from a "hypocritical and self-serving" United Nations Human Rights Council over what it called chronic bias against Israel and a lack of reform, a move activists warned would make advancing human rights globally even more difficult.

Notwithstanding the laudatory comments by the UN Human Rights Council on the improvement of labour rights and several other sectors, its call upon the Bangladesh to thoroughly investigate all incidents of abductions, enforced disappearances, torture and extrajudicial killings, merits immediate attention of the government.

The UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group in Geneva yesterday recommended Bangladesh thoroughly investigate all the incidents of abductions, enforced disappearances, torture and extrajudicial killings.

The UN Human Rights Council decides to extend the mandate of a fact-finding mission in the country by six months, until September 2018, as requested by the mission's leader, but over the objections of Myanmar, China and the Philippines.

Pakistan Prime minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz says the country will raise the issue of executing Jamaat-e-Islami leaders in Bangladesh at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

As North Korea grappled with a massive famine in the 1990s, scientists were working at an elite institute to find ways to boost then leader Kim Jong-il's longevity - and his libido, a defector says.

North Korea says it will no longer take part in UN Human Rights Council session examining its rights record.

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Makarim Wibisono, resigns as Israel never granted him access to the Occupied Palestinian Territory throughout his mandate.

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Marzuki Darusman, today warned that nothing has changed in the country since the UN Commission of Inquiry on DPRK presented its landmark report to the UN Human Rights Council two years ago.